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Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race (Hardcover): Alexander Kelle, Kathryn Nixdorff, Malcolm Dando Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race (Hardcover)
Alexander Kelle, Kathryn Nixdorff, Malcolm Dando
R1,332 Discovery Miles 13 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race" responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in the field of CBW arms control, the book reveals how these two disparate fields might be integrated to precipitate a biochemical arms race among major powers, rogue states, or even non-state actors.
It seeks to raise awareness among policy practitioners, the academic community, and the media that such an arms race may be looming if developments are left unattended, and to provide policy options on how it--and it's devastating consequences--could be avoided. After identifying weaknesses in the international regime structures revolving around the Biological Weapons and Chemical Weapons Conventions, it provides policy proposals to deal with gaps and shortcomings in each prohibition regime individually, and then addresses the widening gap between them.

Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Malcolm Dando Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Malcolm Dando
R2,235 Discovery Miles 22 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the last century, advances in the life sciences were used in the development of biological and chemical weapons in large-scale state offensive programmes, many of which targeted the nervous system. This study questions whether the development of novel biological and chemical neuroweapons can be prevented as neuroscience progresses.

Preventing Biological Warfare - The Failure of American Leadership (Hardcover): Malcolm Dando Preventing Biological Warfare - The Failure of American Leadership (Hardcover)
Malcolm Dando
R1,559 Discovery Miles 15 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to remedy this deficiency. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states. The book investigates how this disaster came about, and the potential consequences of the failure of American leadership.

Preventing Biological Warfare - The Failure of American Leadership (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002):... Preventing Biological Warfare - The Failure of American Leadership (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002)
Malcolm Dando
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to remedy this deficiency. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states. The book investigates how this disaster came about, and the potential consequences of the failure of American leadership.

Peacekeeping and Peacemaking - Towards Effective Intervention in Post-Cold War Conflicts (Paperback, 1st ed. 1998): Tom... Peacekeeping and Peacemaking - Towards Effective Intervention in Post-Cold War Conflicts (Paperback, 1st ed. 1998)
Tom Woodhouse, Robert Bruce, Malcolm Dando
R2,946 Discovery Miles 29 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the United Nations was commemorated in 1995 with a number of conferences and publications which assessed the history and contemporary role of this paramount international organisation. This book is the result of a meeting of scholars and specialists who wished to further understanding of the challenges faced by the United Nations in its efforts to intervene in post-cold war conflict. In particular the experiences in Bosnia, Somalia and in Rwanda, where UN peacekeepers seemed powerless to act in the face of acts of genocide, gross violations of human rights and the widespread suffering caused by war, makes such an analysis timely and important.

Peacekeeping and Peacemaking - Towards Effective Intervention in Post-Cold War Conflicts (Hardcover): Tom Woodhouse, Robert... Peacekeeping and Peacemaking - Towards Effective Intervention in Post-Cold War Conflicts (Hardcover)
Tom Woodhouse, Robert Bruce, Malcolm Dando
R2,978 Discovery Miles 29 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the United Nations was commemorated in 1995 with a number of conferences and publications which assessed the history and contemporary role of this paramount international organisation. This book is the result of a meeting of scholars and specialists who wished to further understanding of the challenges faced by the United Nations in its efforts to intervene in post-cold war conflict. In particular the experiences in Bosnia, Somalia and in Rwanda, where UN peacekeepers seemed powerless to act in the face of acts of genocide, gross violations of human rights and the widespread suffering caused by war, makes such an analysis timely and important.

The Chemical and Biological Nonproliferation Regime after the Covid-19 Pandemic - Dealing with the Scientific Revolution in the... The Chemical and Biological Nonproliferation Regime after the Covid-19 Pandemic - Dealing with the Scientific Revolution in the Life Sciences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Malcolm Dando
R1,376 Discovery Miles 13 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers an analysis of how the Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) regime has responded in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Coronavirus has highlighted the need to better protect modern societies from natural, accidental and deliberate disease affecting humans, animals and plants. Within that context preventing the deliberate hostile use of biological and chemical agents will be of increasing importance. Dando asks to what extent there has been a significant strengthening to the CBW non-proliferation regime in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic using an analysis focused on two proposals to strengthen the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention which aim to constrain advances in science and technology developments that could be misused. On this basis he concludes that it would be hard to argue that to date there has been a significant strengthening of the CBW regime.

Deadly Cultures - Biological Weapons since 1945 (Hardcover): Lajos Rozsa Deadly Cultures - Biological Weapons since 1945 (Hardcover)
Lajos Rozsa; Edited by Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rozsa, Malcolm Dando
R2,112 Discovery Miles 21 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Current concerns largely relate to the threat of weapons acquisition and use by rogue states or by terrorists. But the threat has deeper roots--it has been evident for fifty years that biological agents could be used to cause mass casualties and large-scale economic damage. Yet there has been little historical analysis of such weapons over the past half-century.

"Deadly Cultures" sets out to fill this gap by analyzing the historical developments since 1945 and addressing three central issues: Why have states continued or begun programs for acquiring biological weapons? Why have states terminated biological weapons programs? How have states demonstrated that they have truly terminated their biological weapons programs?

We now live in a world in which the basic knowledge needed to develop biological weapons is more widely available than ever before. "Deadly Cultures" provides the lessons from history that we urgently need in order to strengthen the long-standing prohibition of biological weapons.

Preventing Chemical Weapons - Arms Control and Disarmament as the Sciences Converge (Hardcover): Michael Crowley, Malcolm... Preventing Chemical Weapons - Arms Control and Disarmament as the Sciences Converge (Hardcover)
Michael Crowley, Malcolm Dando, Lijun Shang
R3,534 Discovery Miles 35 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The life and chemical sciences are in the midst of a period of rapid and revolutionary transformation that will undoubtedly bring societal benefits but also have potentially malign applications, notably in the development of chemical weapons. Such concerns are exacerbated by the unstable international security environment and the changing nature of armed conflict, which could fuel a desire by certain States to retain and use existing chemical weapons, as well as increase State interest in creating new weapons; whilst a broader range of actors may seek to employ diverse toxic chemicals as improvised weapons. Stark indications of the multi-faceted dangers we face can be seen in the chemical weapons attacks against civilians and combatants in Iraq and Syria, and also in more targeted chemical assassination operations in Malaysia and the UK. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, and drawing upon an international group of experts, this book analyses current and likely near-future advances in relevant science and technology, assessing the risks of their misuse. The book examines the current capabilities, limitations and failures of the existing international arms control and disarmament architecture - notably the Chemical Weapons Convention - in preventing the development and use of chemical weapons. Through the employment of a novel Holistic Arms Control methodology, the authors also look beyond the bounds of such treaties, to explore the full range of international law, international agreements and regulatory mechanisms potentially applicable to weapons employing toxic chemical agents, in order to develop recommendations for more effective routes to combat their proliferation and misuse. A particular emphasis is given to the roles that chemical and life scientists, health professionals and wider informed activist civil society can play in protecting the prohibition against poison and chemical weapons; and in working with States to build effective and responsive measures to ensure that the rapid scientific and technological advances are safeguarded from hostile use and are instead employed for the benefit of us all.

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